“The truth doesn’t have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.”– Ken Kesey Related Quotes “The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.”– George Bernard Shaw “It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”– Virginia Woolf “It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.”– Thomas Paine